- Road
- Early
- settled by 1835
- DeKalb County
- Location approximate
Decatur-Covington road
Charles and Eleanor Latimer were 'pioneer settlers at this point on the Decatur-Covington road,' where their daughter Rebecca was born in 1835.
The record
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) became a writer and suffrage and temperance advocate and, in 1922, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (GHS). The marker ties the Covington road to a pioneer-era date; when the road was first laid out was not established by this research. It stands near today's Covington Highway.
Today: Near Covington Hwy in south DeKalb.
Where on the map: Decatur east-southeast toward Covington; the Covington Hwy corridor passes the marker.